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[cyavillain]

BNHA ch 267 - Dabi & Caring

BNHA chapter 267 has one panel that has been polarizing. In one panel, Dabi tells Hawks that he’s never given a crap about the League.

However, this isn’t the first time Dabi has said something along the same lines. For example, in chapter 224, the League meets up in the outskirts of Deika City. Giran has been kidnapped by the MLA, and now the League is tryna rescue him. Dabi questions why he had to get involved in this, and Twice tells him to show some respect ‘cause Giran brought Dabi to the League, in which Dabi responds: “Like I care.”

Previously, in chapter 222, the League is preparing to challenge Gigantomachia. Shigaraki has told the League about his early childhood, and Dabi is the first one to break the silence. He tells Shigaraki that he doesn’t care about Shigaraki’s feelings, and that he isn’t gonna help the League with Gigantomachia since he has other things in his mind. Shigaraki is entirely fine with this. He tells Dabi that he’s looking forward to meeting this new ally who’s keeping Dabi occupied. So, technically, nothing or no one forces Dabi to do anything he doesn’t want to do.

Yet, in chapter 227, when Dabi sees Shigaraki pushing forward, he decides to fight against the MLA with the rest of the League.

If Dabi just needed a criminal organization to back him up and make sure that he stays alive as long as he needs to in order to accomplish his personal goal, why doesn’t he try to betray the League here and join the MLA? He ends up fighting against Geten, and this battle could’ve ended in Dabi’s death. As Geten points out in chapter 230, Dabi can’t fight for very long without getting burnt by his own flames. He still decides to fight ‘til the end, tho. A cold and calculative mastermind would retreat, but Dabi won’t.

In the same chapter, Dabi refuses to help Mr. Compress against the MLA, but this is not ‘cause he doesn’t care. Instead, Dabi spots an army of Twice’s clones and tell Compress to join them. So, essentially Dabi is making sure that Compress does the smart thing even when he’s tryna focus on his own battle against Geten.

The thing is that Dabi is not vocal about his emotions. More often than not, he’s not present when the rest of the League is just hanging out, and no one knows what he does. No one knows anything about his likes, and the only thing time he’s said anything about liking or disliking stuff without a manic smile on his face happens in chapter 240 where he tells Spinner that Spinner can have his sushi ‘cause he hates fish. One could even say that this is a peace offering since Dabi did insult Spinner in chapter 160 by calling him “Lizard”, and Spinner hated it. So, why does he make extra sure to inform that he doesn’t care about the League whenever he can?

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To fully understand Dabi, you have to look at the situation where Dabi is in. This arc started around chapter 258 with a flashback. Hawks recollects how he and Twice became “friends”, and around chapters 258 – 259, it is revealed that the heroes are going to attack in two locations, the Jaku Hospital and the PLF hideout. So, at this point, the heroes are attacking the villains, and in chapter 263, Cementoss makes the first move against the PLF by tearing the mansion wall down with his quirk. The PLF assembles, but Dabi is shown to go the opposite way from them, and Toga and Compress don’t seem to join the rest of the PLF either, which indicates that none of them are on board with the PLF’s plans.

In chapter 264, Dabi is walking upstairs and approaching the room where Hawks and Twice are fighting. So, at this point Dabi must’ve been aware of Twice’s whereabouts, and sure, one could argue that he’s been keeping an eye out for Hawks ‘cause he looks like he’s so ready to kill Hawks, but him being thrilled about his plan coming together doesn’t mean that he can’t care about the League members. These feelings won’t contradict one another.

In chapter 265 Hawks tells Twice that he’ll make sure that the League will know what Twice said about the League before his death. Hawks is about to deliver the final blow when Dabi enters the stage, telling Hawks that there’s no need to deliver any messages and that he’d heard everything loud and clear. This is also where Dabi overpowers Hawks and stomps on his face. Chapter 266 begins with Dabi verbally defending Twice after Hawks has said that Twice is unlucky. When Dabi talks to the League members, he’s rude, but Hawks is an outsider, and Dabi isn’t having it.  Dabi has nothing to gain here since he could encourage Twice later on if he needed to do that, and that’d be enough. But instead, Dabi speaks to Hawks, calling Hawks’ standard screwed up. This is not how “not caring” works.

The fight continues, and Dabi tells Twice that the others are waiting. He is referring to Toga and Compress instead of the entire PLF, and if Dabi’s only goal was to make sure that his side wins, it’d make more sense for him to tell Twice to go assist heavy hitters such as Geten. Toga and Compress are stealth fighters, especially Toga, so from a strategical POV, they aren’t the best people clone at first in such a strength-based battle where blows need to be delivered fast. And this also indicates that Toga and Compress lowkey know what Dabi is planning. Dabi even gives Twice a high five before they part ways, and this isn’t a cold and calculated move from someone who’s supposed to conjure fire from both hands. No, it was a brotherly move.

Everything goes wrong when it turns out that Hawks is faster than anticipated. The chapter 266 ends when Twice dies ‘cause Hawks managed to stab him from behind. However, one remaining clone of his manages to save Toga and Compress from the heroes before the clone melts away, Toga hugging him. 

We don’t get to see Dabi’s reaction ‘til chapter 267, but boy, he is enraged. He usually likes to burn his enemies as fast as he can (like those street thugs in chapter 115 and Snatch in chapter 160), but right now, he’s being deliberately slow. He’s basically treating Hawks like his new favorite chewing toy, and he smiles this manic smile throughout the entire chapter as he continues to torture Hawks with his flames. At this point, Hawks has lost his wings, but Dabi is prolonging this fight ‘cause he wants Hawks to suffer for killing Twice. Again, an emotion-based move, and from a strategic POV, this isn’t the best idea. So, this highlights that Dabi cares. He wants blood and ashes ‘cause he fcking cares.

Now, to recap the entire situation, the PLF has been attacked just mere moments ago, and Dabi is in the middle of a fight, and he’s lost a friend. He’s never talked about his feeling except when he’s highlighting how little he cares about the League, but the thing is that if you don’t care about people, you don’t remember to bring them up. Dabi does. Every time. Sure, Hawks is kinda pushing it by asking Dabi if that’s a face of a man who’s lost a friend. Hawks says that he’s looked into the League’s backgrounds and that there was no info about Dabi or Shigaraki. This is where Dabi tells Hawks that Hawks should’ve focused on Dabi instead of anyone else – and this is also where Dabi says that he doesn’t care about the League. But the thing is that there’s absolutely no point in saying that if this that’s the case. Statements like that don’t achieve a thing, but they do have shock value, and when you are a criminal, you do have a lot of enemies. You wanna people to think that you care about no one ‘cause if people think this is true, no one will be held against you.

So, this is not “not caring”. This is trash talk coming from someone who wishes they didn’t care the way they do.

[zarla-s]

Fun little details about Papyrus:

He thinks the snow in Snowdin is ice cream.

He loves deadly spikes and precarious bridges. He hates conveyor belts and steam vents. He’s also not super fond of lasers.

He thinks impressing people with his huge biceps is a good way to make friends.

He loves to be pet. He will also play fetch with you and bring back sticks in his teeth.

He thinks humans descended from skeletons.

It takes the brothers only one screen with no puzzles for them to get bored enough to make snowmen waiting for you.

Papyrus knows Sans hangs around Toriel’s door all the time, but he doesn’t know why.

Papyrus doesn’t actually have a sentry station of his own, he just has the one he and Sans made out of a cardboard box (and pasta). Sans has his own station though.

Papyrus’s station is only two screens from Sans’s.

The brothers are never more than one screen apart from each other in Snowdin.

When he gets zapped by the orb he IMMEDIATELY blames Sans for it.

Papyrus is feeling pretty down when the game starts, according to Sans.

Whenever Sans goes to Grillby’s, Papyrus (irritated) isn’t too far behind him. He only orders milk there though. It’s full of strong bones, he says! He’s willing to pretend to like Grillby’s though when Undyne says she likes the food.

Papyrus just straight up gives you the answer to his first X-O puzzle.

When Papyrus redoes the one X-O puzzle to look like his face and then forgets the solution, he gripes about how Sans isn’t around so you’ll just have to solve it. Which implies that he thought Sans could help somehow.

Papyrus knows Sans can teleport, although he might not know exactly how. He also knows he has at least four stations/jobs.

The innkeeper gives Papyrus lollipops and pats on the head. He thinks she’s very nice.

Undyne hasn’t seen Papyrus sleep ever. She has seen Sans make tons of midnight snacks though.

Papyrus likes it when books are arranged by color.

He knows there’s a quiche under the bench in the secret room. So does Undyne, actually.

If you call him again in Sans’s telescope room, he just goes “thanks for calling” which hugely amuses me for some reason. THANKS FOR LETTING ME KNOW WHERE MY BROTHER IS

He thinks skeletons are warm and cuddly and very soft.

The Dogi steal bones from Papyrus to give to each other as Christmas presents. But Papyrus always comes and takes them back.

He wants to run a store that sells flames. He also gets scared by echo flower whispering.

Monster Kid can’t tell if Papyrus is a kid or an adult.

The skeletons like chasing that bunny lady’s little brother around.

Papyrus likes monologuing about things he does.

He dreams of being a salaryman with an office puzzle job commuting on a train full of spikes.

He’s never seen an anime, but thinks they’re for babies anyway. Which implies that someone told him that they were (maybe it was Sans, lol).

Papyrus doesn’t know what the back of his hands look like because he’s always wearing gloves (this kind of blew my mind actually, I totally forgot he said this).

He thinks oranges smell delicious.

Mettaton is his favorite sexy rectangle. He also wants to have handsome bishonen eyes like Mettaton.

He knows about other types of pasta. He stopped making lasagna because the annoying dog kept eating it.

Sans bought lumaconi pasta at one point, presumably for Papyrus to cook with. Or maybe for his own use, who knows. Papyrus thinks he’d fill them with hot dogs and slime.

Papyrus says he’d never take a vacation for any reason.

Papyrus told Undyne about being friends with Flowey, but she didn’t believe him. He also told Sans, and presumably if Papyrus had any other friends, he would have told them about Flowey too.

He immediately believes you’re in love with him when you flirt with him. Like the thought you could be lying or trying to trick him doesn’t even cross his mind.

During his battle, he says someone who likes him as much as you is really rare. Which again implies that Papyrus has very few friends, despite his (presumably false) statement that he has many admirers.

His/their house is very neat, aside from the change in the couch and Sans’s room which Papyrus has completely given up on. Even Papyrus’s closet is very neatly organized. He apparently regularly vacuums. He spends a lot of time at home, and it’s one of his favorite places to be.

Papyrus isn’t friends with Alphys (at first) and is surprised that Sans seems to know her. He only follows her online. He asked Undyne to ask her to help set up the tile puzzle.

Papyrus keeps spaghetti in his fridge to preserve it in his “food museum”, not for eating later. It also really amuses me that Sans keeps his popato chisps in the fridge. It’s the ONLY thing he keeps in the fridge.

Papyrus cackles when he gets excited.

Papyrus is only one head taller than Sans AND only one head taller than the human. Sans and the human are the same height. He describes himself as very tall and handsome though.

Papyrus has a present under the tree in Snowdin that disappears mysteriously if you kill him.

He really loves midriff exposing shirts.

He’s flattered by insults.

Papyrus only got his “battle body” a few weeks before the game starts. He and Sans made it for a costume party. He has since worn nothing else. He even wears it in the shower. Sans thinks he looks really cool in it.

This is more Sans related, but despite being the “most regular regular” and Grillby’s best customer, he hasn’t been showing up as much at Grillby’s recently by the time you come around. On a related note, Sans knows a lot about all kinds of foods, but routinely orders the worst burger on the menu.

Papyrus gives Undyne gold ribbon-wrapped bones as gifts constantly and thinks she loves them. He actually loves bones in general and likes having them around. He heightened his sink just to store more bones, keeps a box of his bone attacks in his room, and says the giant picture of a bone in his house reminds him of “what’s important in life”.

Papyrus is actually pretty emotionally intelligent. He knows exactly how to manipulate Undyne into being friends with you, and while he is massively projecting all over you at points, his analysis of your feelings both before you fight him and after your date show a pretty nuanced understanding of people’s emotions. He also can tell that something’s up with Alphys after he goes running with her, and that you’re a good person to deal with it.

On a related note, despite being completely in love with himself, Papyrus is also very empathetic. His primary concern when he’s friendzoning you is that you’re going to be hurt that he can’t reciprocate your feelings. When you insult him, he thinks you’re insulting yourself and tells you to stop and that he thinks you’re great. He goes on a date with you so as not to hurt your feelings.

After you escape his shed once, he cuts up a hot dog into the dog food to improve the accomodations for you.

Papyrus always wears “special” clothes under his normal clothes just in case someone asks him on a date. No one has until you do though. He actually doesn’t know how dates work at all before he checked out that book on it… though he still agreed to one with you anyway without even knowing what it was.

Papyrus doesn’t like lying to people. He just wants to be everybody’s friend! He also says that he would never betray you (to Undyne), which shows a shocking amount of loyalty to someone he’s only known for like, a day.

He thinks solving puzzles and talking on the phone are “very Papyrus” things to do.

Sans and Papyrus’s souls are literally linked to each other. It’s specifically seeing you be nice to their brother that brings the other back from the void. Strangely enough, the brothers are also the only Lost Souls that have inconsistent pronouns - they’re referred to alternately as he or it.

Papyrus believes that capturing you would earn him all the love and recognition he’s always wanted… and yet, he still voluntarily lets you go. Your friendship ends up being more important to him than the potential culmination of all his hopes and dreams. He gives it all up for you.

[st-froy]

[devlunar]

It's officially pride month and I felt this was a relevant topic. I struggle to understand how we're all playing the same game with canon gay and gnc characters and yet so many people complain about Kris using they/them pronouns. You can claim Kris uses he or she all you want but you won't find that anywhere in the game. *You can use the icons with credit

[marnielovesyouu]

Oh my god i cant believe i didnt post this here

[wilwoo]

Happy brothers’ day. 💝

here’s a lil doodle I made in its honor.

[licollisa]

Undertale AU where everything is the same except everyone colors are inverted and their personalities are opposite of canon.

Don't have the energy to make them all, so have the skelebros instead

So this Sans actually protected you from other monsters

He'd also straight up murder you if you killed Papyrus :D (assuming you succeeded)

[rondoel]

“You could say I heh.. fell for you”

aka after 2 years of lurking I finally decide to participate in this fandom 👌

[unidentifiedflyingchoco]

Chara Doesn’t Like Killing

Chara enjoying the no mercy route is a very large misconception within the fandom. There’s this idea that they want to kill everything, or at the very least like doing it. However in game evidence suggests the opposite.

Chara Gives Us Advice On Sparing Others

The idea that Chara is pushing for killing and death is simply false considering they actively help us spare monsters. For example they encourage us to find a way to spare Toriel after reseting because we previously failed to do so. 

Chara also encourages us to not be creepy and say messed up things to Toriel after we’ve killed her previously. 

Chara does actions of similar caliber with more monsters than Toriel though. For example Chara encourages us to not pick on Loox. 

Chara does this basically through out the entire game too. They actively give us advice on how to spare everyone through out the whole game.

Chara Becomes Pessimistic When We Kill

On neutral routes if we kill monsters Chara becomes so upset that they’re pessimistic. This is seen in multiple ways. The first of which being the infamous dog food line. If we spare every monster we encounter the dialogue says this:

The difference is that if you kill even one monster the dialogue changes to this:

What’s important about this is the implications behind this, half full vs half empty is a phrase, specifically referring to optimism vs pessimism. 

So what does this mean for Chara? it means they’re negatively affected by us killing monsters. This is seen in more direct ways as well. For example after killing Toriel Chara shows remorse for what we did. 

Chara also becomes emotional when we kill Undyne on a neutral run. 

The No Mercy Run

The no mercy run is a large pill to swallow with a lot to analyze, however it’s safe to say that Chara is in mental distress during this run. Regular, lively narration turns to basic and lackluster narration,

Normal save point descriptions just turn to “Determination”,

and Chara forces us through interactions.

Why are they doing this though? Because they want to get it all over with. They’ve been told it’s their purpose so they listen, but they dont enjoy doing so, and actively try and make it as quick as possible. They even snap out of it sometimes, like when they hesitate before killing their brother, Asriel. 

Chara also comments on the fact that we have a perverted sentimentality,

and that they cannot understand those feelings. 

They even feel obligated to suggest that we pick a different route. 

TL;DR

In conclusion Chara does not enjoy killing because of their narration that tries to bring us down a pacifist path, they’re pessimism when it comes to the death of others, and their distaste with the no mercy route.

[kinoselynn]

strong Amy ...

[luc3ks]

the concept of silver having no running stamina cuz he just floats around everywhere is fucking hysterical to me bc when they race he

[laneichy]

The internet experience…..

[flightcub]

thursday needs a meme, here’s my attempt to contribute. it’s thursday and i’m here to help. thanks

[flightcub]

it’s thursday today but it’s cold outside, so here’s an update on my attempt at a thursday meme. it’s thursday and it’s cold but i’m still here to help. thanks 

[flightcub]

it’s 2015 now and thursday still needs a meme, here’s another attempt to contribute. it’s thursday and it’s a new year and as always i’m here to help. thanks

[flightcub]

spring has sprung but thursday still needs a meme, so here’s another attempt to contribute. it’s springtime this thursday, and even as the seasons change i’m here to help. thanks 

[flightcub]

it’s a summer thursday and thursday still needs a meme, so here’s one more attempt to contribute. it’s thursday and this summer i’m here to help. thanks 

[legalgranola-deactivated2016022]

Her dedication must not go unrecognized

[transgenderastarion]

i can’t believe i found this again on a thursday lady your mission has been accomplished

[cryronic]

Rule: you can only reblog this on Thursday.

[depressed-alone]

Ooo its thursday

[ipaniceverywherenotjustthedisco]

welp its that time of the week again.

[valkyriesofvelaris-deactivated2]

t h u r s d a y 

[spooky-starboy]

Happy thursday!

[keijislove]

happy thursday yall!

[hangyeomcult-deactivated2024020]

guess what bitches

[wasans]

[thecollectibles]

Art by Wayne Tsay

[carrotkicks]

just a boy and his robotic bear dad

[iggykoopa666]

[iggykoopa666]